Percolator-pot.



G. SAVAGE. PERGOLATOR POT.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 17, 1909. r v 992,262, Patented May 16, 1911.

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PERCOLATOR POT.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.17, 1909.

992,262. Patented May16,1911.

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GEORGE SAVAGE, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HANNIN G, BOWMAN & I

COMPANY, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

PERCOLATOR-POT.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. SAVAGE, a citizen of the United States, residin at Meriden, county of New Haven, State of onnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Percolator-Pots, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in percolator pots, and is particularly concerned with means for preventing the hot liquid which flows from the percolating tube and impinges against the glass top or cover usually employed in devices of this kind from cracking said cover.

The invention also contemplates means for preventing the accumulation of surplus liquid in the retainer which usually overlies the cofiee in the container; and a further object of the invention is to more effectually distribute the percolated liquid over the contents of the container.

With these objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, a preferred embodiment of which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

1n which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a percolating pot and container, the latter being broken away for clear illustration of the interior. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the retainer, showing the overflow and distributer. Fig.3 is a plan view of the distributer, detached. Fig. 4 is an under side view of the glass top or cover of the container.

The embodiment of the invention herein selected for illustration comprises the main pot 1, having a heating chamber 2 communicating therewith. Within the mouth of the ot is seated a container 3, having the usual perforated bottom 4 and having fixed to the bottom a sleeve 5 through which the percolating tube 6 extends when the parts are assembled. The sleeve 5 as shown is of larger diameter than the tube to provide an overflow passage 7 between these parts. Within the container is seated a retainer 8,

. having a perforated bottom, as shown, at the center of which is secured a tubular overflow member 9 of a diameter to fit snugly over the sleeve 5 of the container. Projecting upwardly from the tubular member 9 are standards 10 upon the upper' ends of which is supported a distributer 11, which prefer- 'wedge that of the cap against .t

ably takes the form of a cone-shaped ring, fittm closely about the upper end of the perco at-lng tube. The spaces 12 between the standards 10 afford communication between the retainer and the passage 7 to return surplus liquid in the former to the pot 1.

The container 3 is provided with the usual glass cover or-top 13, which,.however, in the form here shown is rovided with a comparatively large opening 14 at the top, within which is fitted a metal cap 15 and within this cap is secured a protecting and distributing plate 16, the cap and protecting plate, together with the knob or handle 17 of the cover, being secured together pref erably by a screw 18. The rims of the cap 15 and the protecting plate 16 are turned slightly outward, as at 19, so that when the screw 18 is turned up in fastening the parts together, the rim of the protectin plate will fie walls of the opening 14, thus holding the parts se curely assembled. As the percolated liquid is forcibly ejected from the percolating tube, it will impinge against the protecting plate 16 and be thrown back upon the distributer 11 and into the retainer 8. The interposition of the protecting plate 16 in the glass cover 13 effectually protects the latter from being cracked by the heated liquid. Furthermore, the protecting plate acts as an auxiliary distributer, which, in conjunction with the distributer 11,'spreads the percolated liquid well overjthe surface of the container.

While I have herein shown a particular embodiment of my invention, the same may be altered in details and relative arrangement of parts within the scope of the appended claims.

What -I claim is:

1. In a percolator pot having a percolator tube, the combination with a container, of a cover of frangible material therefor, a pro tecting plate mounted at the center of said cover and extending over the percolator tube to serve as a liquid distributer, a second plate overlying said first mentioned plate leaving an air space between the two, a handle for said cover, and means for securing said plates and handle together and to said cover.

2. In a percolator pot having a percolator tube, the combination with a container of a retainer mounted therein, a distributer carried by said retainer and surrounding the upper end of the percolator tube, a cover for said container having a protecting plate extendin over the upper end of said tube and serving at the same time as an auxiliary distributer.

3. In a percolator pot having a percolator tube, the combination with a container having an overflow passage formed therein, of a retainer mounted therein and having an openin communicating with said passage, a distributin plate carried by said retainer and surroun ing the upper end of the percolator tube, and a cover for said container having a protecting member extending over the upper end of the percolating tube, said member serving also as an auxiliary distributer.

4. In a percolator pot the combination with a container, a percolator tube extending through said container to a point adjacent said cover, a portion of said coverover said tube being removed, and a protecting and distributin plate of non-frangible material arrange moved portion to distribute the liquid to replace said re-- ejected from said tube, and to protect the fran ble portion of said cover.

5. n a percolator pot, the combination with a container of a ercolator tube extendmg therethrough, a g ass cover for said contamer havmg a portion thereof extending over .said tube removed, a plate of nonfrangible material arran ed to replace said removed portion, a ban le secured to said plate, an means for securing said plate and handle to said cover.

6. In a percolator pot, the combination,

GEORGE E. SAVAGE.

Witnesses:

CHAS. A. Pnanjn, IDA M. HUNZIKER. 

